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Article: Interview

Jochen Pfister: Touring with Sheila Jordan

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2009

German pianist Jochen Pfister had played in workshops with Sheila Jordan in Germany and, at her invitation, in the United States. In 2008, while in Cologne, he asked her if she might be interested in a German tour. “Yes" was the answer, and now it's about happen The first gig is Friday Match 6, 2009, in ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2009

Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...

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News: Recording

Dominick Farinacci's "Lovers, Tales & Dances" Released February 24th

February 20, 2009

Young Trumpeter Poised To Help Shape Next Generation Of Jazz Artistry U.S. Debut Lovers, Tales & Dances In Stores February 24, 2009 (E1 Music) New U.S. Tour Dates Announced “Dominick's tone shines...he is reminiscent of Clifford Brown and Miles Davis." --Russ Titelman February 20, 2009 (New York, NY) -- Fresh off two sold out concerts at ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Blue Note at 70

by Joel Roberts
February 14, 2009

No label in jazz can match the history and legacy of Blue Note Records. Since its founding in New York in 1939 by German emigre Alfred Lion, Blue Note has been associated with an amazing assortment of jazz luminaries including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, ...

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Article: Live Review

Randy Brecker Quintet Honors Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
February 11, 2009

Randy BreckerPerelman TheaterThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PAFebruary 7, 2009 Around the time that Miles Davis was recording the iconic album Kind of Blue in 1959, a kid from Philadelphia named Randy Brecker was learning to play trumpet, and not long after that, he entered the firmament ...

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News: Education

Carolina Jazz Connection with Larry Reni Thomas at Jazz Speaks at UNCW

February 4, 2009

Jazz Speaks at UNCW (The University of North Carolina at Wilmington), a lecture series conducted by distinguished professor and master musician Joe Chambers, continues, with its second installment, February 15, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., at Beckwith Hall, in The Cultural Arts Building, at UNCW. The lecture will deal with jazz as social history and will cover ...

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News: Recording

"Just a Little Taste," the Debut CD from Denver-Based Trumpeter/Educator Al Hood, Due February 17

January 27, 2009

A masterful trumpeter with a wide range of experience in the jazz, classical, and academic arenas, Al Hood has previously recorded and/or performed with the Phil Collins Big Band, Curtis Fuller, and orchestras led by Ray Charles, Arturo Sandoval, and Richie Cole. He's a longtime member of the eclectic, classically oriented Denver Brass as well as ...

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Article: Book Review

DelightfuLee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan

by Larry Reni Thomas
January 14, 2009

DelightfuLee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan Jeffrey McMillan Cloth/Paper; 272 pages ISBN: 978-0-472-11502-0/978-0-472-03281-5 University of Michigan Press 2008 This is an excellent, well-written, abundantly researched, scholarly book on the life and music of one of the great, unheralded heroes of jazz--the trumpeter ...

Album

Lee Morgan

By Lee Morgan

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Whisper Not; Latin Hangover; His Sister; Slightly Hep; Where Am I; D's Fink.

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Article: Record Label Profile

Fresh Sound-New Talent

by Laurel Gross
December 24, 2008

Fresh Sound-New Talent owner and founder Jordi Pujol lives in Barcelona where his label is based but he's been up all night following the US Presidential election. Speaking from his native Spain the “morning after," he expresses the hope that the selection of President Elect Barack Obama might bode well not only for America but Europe ...